Tsai blind to fruits of cross-Straits exchanges

Upholding the one-China policy, Beijing will continue to promote peaceful development across the Straits and advance the peaceful national reunification process, said Zhang Zhijun, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council at a "ministers' passage" on March 5 during the ongoing two sessions. China has the confidence and capability to stop any scheme or activity promoting "Taiwan independence", Zhang added.

Forty years of reform and opening-up in the mainland have provided a big market for and nourished a large number of Taiwan corporations such as Foxconn, Want Want Holdings, Uni-President Enterprises Corporation and Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corporation. This win-win cooperation has also contributed to the economic prosperity of both sides of the Straits.

With socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a "new era", the rise of the mainland will create more opportunities for ordinary Taiwan residents, instead of just big enterprises, to enjoy the fruits of cooperation between the two sides.